Past Events

What Would The End Of Mass Incarceration Mean For Prison Towns? | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian
Susanville In-Person | Streaming Online

What Would The End Of Mass Incarceration Mean For Prison Towns? with Keri Blakinger

California is turning away from mass incarceration. After generations of opening prisons and increasing the number of inmates inside them, the state government is planning to close a number of institutions. But many state prisons are located in struggling rural communities dependent on the jobs and health care infrastructure these facilities provide. The Newsom administration’s announcement of its intention to …

Could Immigration Unite Americans? | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian
Streaming Live Online

Could Immigration Unite Americans? with Ali Noorani & Miriam Jordan

Survey after survey suggests Americans strongly support immigration. Yet fear dominates the politics around immigration. Elected officials and pundits routinely use the rhetoric that immigrants are threats to culture, public safety, and jobs—not only to justify restrictions on migrants’ rights, but also to divide communities and gain power at the expense of democracy itself. What makes this fear-mongering so effective, …

How Do Homelands Cross Borders? | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian
Northridge In-Person | Streaming Online

How Do Homelands Cross Borders?

To leave your birthplace behind and make a home elsewhere is to cross any number of boundaries—national and linguistic, religious and spiritual. While loss is an inevitable part of this journey, it’s not just about displacement; it is also a story of cultural change and celebration. Migrants and immigrants find new ways to balance assimilation and tradition—and to create entirely …

Does The First Amendment Still Protect Free Speech? | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian
Los Angeles In-Person | Streaming Online

Does The First Amendment Still Protect Free Speech?

Bring your appetite! We have partnered with On the Go LA to bring the Gusina Saraba food truck right outside the venue—we encourage you to support a local food vendor.

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution is supposed to provide the world’s strongest protections of free speech and a free press. But you wouldn’t know that from reading …

Can Bureaucracy Start a Climate Revolution? | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian
Streaming Live Online

Can Bureaucracy Start a Climate Revolution?

The struggle to limit carbon emissions often pits sustainable energy against fossil fuels. But does it have to be this way? As Kartikeya Singh writes in a new essay for Issues in Science and Technology, India’s carbon-heavy government ministries have shown a surprising ability to engineer deep change: the nation brought electricity to over half a billion citizens between …

Can California Solve Its Air Quality Inequality? | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian
Streaming Live Online

Can California Solve Its Air Quality Inequality?

EVENT UPDATE:
As part of our commitment to the health and well-being of our community, this event will now be streaming-only. We hope you’ll join us virtually and participate via live chat.

While smog in Los Angeles and wildfire smoke in San Francisco dominate headlines, California’s rural communities are also besieged by a constellation of forces that foul their air. In …